BL0009-Working for an Analog Boss in the Digital Age
The Intro
Everyone must understand the value of effective leadership. It’s the only way to grow successful teams. Without Bold Leadership you are doomed to mediocrity. I believe that bold leaders who empower individuals, value their team and look at failure as an opportunity are destined for greatness. Today I am going to teach you why you should bridge the digital gap between your analog boss and your new hires. How you can improve your team’s performance by bridging this gap and provide three bold rules for translating analog thought processes to digitally minded next gen teammates.
We are entering interesting times. Most senior executives still remember watching black and white televisions. Most of your new hires never lived without a cell phone. You are trapped between analog executives and digital new hires. We serve as the translator. I know this because I live in this diametrically opposed universe everyday. You want to leverage technology to manage processes, have an electronic dashboard to manage your metrics and leverage telecommuting to improve production from your younger team members. The old man still wants to keep paper files, is scared of the cloud and wants everyone at their desk from 9-5 at a minimum thus sucking the life out of your younger team members.
Lynn Connet, one of my favorite mentors once told me, “If you are unwilling to adapt and change you will become irrelevant.” This statement has never been more true than in our ever changing digital world today. I know you know this because you live it everyday. I bet that your first cell phone was a flip phone, you’ve heard of black and white television and know what rabbit ears are. Your boss on the other hand just got his first cell phone in the last five years, grew up with black and white television and knows what a busy signal sounds like. He grew up in a business world with a typewriter, fax machine and a legal pad. Your new hires are digitally connected. Their first phone was an iPhone. They grew up on facebook, twitter and instagram. Their first resume was uploaded on linkedin 2 months before g
